Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
Historic Milanese trattoria in Porta Garibaldi, Milan
Antica Trattoria della Pesa
Ossobuco Since 1880
Antica Trattoria della Pesa has been feeding Milan since 1880 on Viale Pasubio, where goods coming into the city were once weighed for the toll before passing through Porta Comasina, today's Porta Garibaldi. Pesa means weighing. The Sassi family, who own it, have kept the room the way it was: majolica stoves, graniglia floors, old enamel signs. It is one of the Locali Storici d'Italia. The house will also tell you a young Ho Chi Minh worked here in the 1930s and slept upstairs. Take that one as you like.
The menu could be a Lombard grandmother's notebook. Risotto alla milanese. Ossobuco on top of that risotto. Costoletta alla milanese, the bone-in veal cutlet. Cazzoeula and brasato with polenta. Foiolo, the Milanese tripe. Vitello tonnato, rognoncino with purée, cotechino with mostarda. For dessert, warm zabaione or zuppa inglese. Nothing is reinvented. Nothing needs to be.
Come here to find out what Milan ate before it got fashionable, and come hungry. The room is sober and a little formal, the way old Milanese places are. Order the ossobuco with risotto and keep it to yourself.
- Order this
- Ossobuco with risotto alla milanese, Costoletta alla milanese, Cazzoeula with polenta in winter, Warm zabaione
- The damage
- $$$
- Go
- Monday to Saturday, lunch 12.30 to 14.30 or dinner 19.00 to 23.00; closed Sunday
- Find it
- Viale Pasubio 10, 20154 Milano
- Website
- anticatrattoriadellapesa.com